Ancient Greek

Noun

γλεῦκος • ‎(gleûkos) n ‎(genitive γλεύκους or γλεύκεος); third declension

1. sweet new wine
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   • circa AD 80–90, The New Testament in the original Greek (1885), Πράξεις τῶν Ἀποστόλων 2:13:

     ἕτεροι δὲ διαχλευάζοντες ἔλεγον ὅτι Γλεύκους μεμεστωμένοι εἰσίν.

     Others, mocking, said, “They are filled with new wine.” ― translation from: World English Bible (rev. of 1901 ed.), Acts 2:13

   1. grape juice
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2. sweetness
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Declension

Descendants

• French: glucose
  • English: glucose

References

• γλεῦκος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• γλεῦκος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «γλεῦκος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «γλεῦκος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G1098”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• «γλεῦκος» in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th-12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften